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I was going to swap out the refrigerator circuit board in the camper. It's a 30 minute plus job to get all the wiring correct. It's 95 degrees outside and the access to the board is from the outside of the camper. FTS I'll do it tomorrow morning while it's cool.
Ok I lied. I got out there and did the power board swap and also replaced the thermistor. Now I have to wait and see if the damn thing cools down
Camper was cool. Clean as a whistle. Plenty of cool features. Toyota cannot tow it. He wanted to much for it. I bought 2 Michelin tires from him.
well shit. looks like I am gonna have to buy a new camper fridge, $1400-1700 7 cu ft refrigerator/ freezer with cold weather package (down to zero*)
the fridge is a 2007. From what I have read the MFG expect them to last 15 years maximum...I got 14
the fridge is a 2007. From what I have read the MFG expect them to last 15 years maximum...I got 14
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I'm glad I have a 4 day weekend because the front end was supposed to take about 4 hours.
Tried 4 different spring compressors to no avail. Ended up putting the floor jack under the spring pocket and just hoped for the best when I busted the ball joint. I should have bought lower arms and didn't. Now I have and they come tomorrow. So it will be all new front end upper and lower control arms, springs and heavy duty shocks. I will get tie rod ends when the alignment is done.
That's a got mess right there.
Tried 4 different spring compressors to no avail. Ended up putting the floor jack under the spring pocket and just hoped for the best when I busted the ball joint. I should have bought lower arms and didn't. Now I have and they come tomorrow. So it will be all new front end upper and lower control arms, springs and heavy duty shocks. I will get tie rod ends when the alignment is done.
That's a got mess right there.
Woot, one of the guys on the FB Truck Camper page pointed me to a company that sells cooling units for Norcold and Dometic RV refrigerators. They had my model in stock. It's not a complicated swap over per the online step by step PDF file. The replacement cooling unit is $620 delivered vs $1600 for a new fridge plus tax and shipping and a minimum 6 week lead time. Cooling unit comes with a 5 year replacement warranty.
Junk mans Winnebago is in great shape. He seems legit. If it passes inspection. I may have a new camper. I need to upgrade my license for the highway. Its attached to a 2005 Ford F-350 Dually Van Chassis. 34K miles. Seems well taken care of. Needs nothing more then a oil change.
Fedex freight picked up my new cooling unit in Indiana today. It is supposed to arrive this Saturday...
Pics?
I wonder what this complete rig weighed, and what it’s fuel mileage was.
So shiny. Only took me about 4 tries to get the coil seated properly. Now to take apart the driver's side and see if I can seat the coil on that side. What a mess.
New steering parts when the alignment is done.
New steering parts when the alignment is done.
Tom Hanks is selling his Airstream trailer and Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser
Tom Hanks is auctioning off a couple of his vehicles during Monterey Car Week. The first is an Airstream trailer used on movie sets, and the other is an FJ40.
www.autoblog.com
He fucked up the FJ40 by dropping that V6 in. The original inline 6 would chug through the nastiest stuff not spinning the tires and breaking tractionTom Hanks is selling his Airstream trailer and Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser
Tom Hanks is auctioning off a couple of his vehicles during Monterey Car Week. The first is an Airstream trailer used on movie sets, and the other is an FJ40.
I am getting it looked at by my mechanic Jay tomorrow. I will take some then.
Speedy meth holes
looks like half of the wrecked campers the homeless have obtained from salvage yards that are scattered around the industrial areas of Oakland and Berkeley. Beats living under a tarp
Work in progress?
One of my med school friends just got a Northern Lite 9-6 wet bath. Rig is a Chevy 3500 SRW, crew cab long bed 4x4.
That's 4,078-4,398 lb payload against 2,857 lb dry weight on the slide in camper. 33 gallons fresh, 13 black, 24 grey, 6 hot, 40 propane. At 8.34 lb per gallon that'd add 967 lb if all tanks were somehow full.
So close but ok in real world, peanut gallery?
That's 4,078-4,398 lb payload against 2,857 lb dry weight on the slide in camper. 33 gallons fresh, 13 black, 24 grey, 6 hot, 40 propane. At 8.34 lb per gallon that'd add 967 lb if all tanks were somehow full.
So close but ok in real world, peanut gallery?
Sweet! Will look even cooler when you bedazzle it with glitter.
It needs a little TLC but has good bones.
Job one, redo that front window and marker light seals. That is a major point of water intrusion and frame rot
I have two campers worth of data to say that @eric strt6 is correct.
The chemicals kind of mask the smell. Lately I have been adding a cup of dawn dish soap and it seems to do as well as the RV chemicals. Other that that I used TST
First pop, somewhere in Why Omen.
Got a photo of rideit's new puppy, shortly after noping the fuck out of Jackson and into Idaho.
Got a photo of rideit's new puppy, shortly after noping the fuck out of Jackson and into Idaho.
At the end, I was using dish soap and Pinesol. It'll never get rid of the smell, but it does make it a bit more tolerable. Seemed to do a decent job preventing the accumulation of solids.
Just remember to shut the bathroom fan off before flushing the toilet, otherwise it'll draw a healthy serving of eu de black tank into the air.
Nice rig and swamp donkey.First pop, somewhere in Why Omen.
Got a photo of rideit's new puppy, shortly after noping the fuck out of Jackson and into Idaho.
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